“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
In 1787, amidst a sweltering Philadelphia summer and equally heated debates over the proposed constitution, James Madison warned his fellow delegates of the danger that giving the president the power to declare war would pose to liberty. On June 29th of that year...
Have you ever had that experience of swatting an annoying fly only to have it get back up, dazed and confused, and come back around for another smackdown? That’s the life of your typical advocate of nullification. It seems that no matter how many times you swat...